Okay. I found a solution while messing around with the code. Instead of doing the following code to set the values of a range of cells at once like this: 

  $range = $worksheet->Range(sprintf("%s%d:%s%d", 'A', $nRow, 'C', $nR
+ow));

  $range->{Value} = [@Params[0], $sTextData, @Params[2];

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I changed it so the code added the values to the cells one at a time like this: 
  $range = $worksheet->Range(sprintf("%s%d", 'A', $nRow));
  $range->{Value} = @Params[0];

  $range = $worksheet->Range(sprintf("%s%d", 'B', $nRow));
  $range->{Value} = $sTextData;

  $range = $worksheet->Range(sprintf("%s%d", 'C', $nRow));
  $range->{Value} = @Params[2];

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For some reason, this did the trick. I haven't gotten the exception anymore and the long text is now showing in the cell where as before it wouldn't get inserted. If anyone has a good explanation as to why this code makes that much of a difference I would be more than happy to listen.

In reply to Re: Problem adding long string to excel cell by Anchor
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